Key-holder.



G. BEAVIS.

KEY HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 14, 1911.

Patented Oct. 31, 1911.

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-- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 31, 1911.

Application filed February 14,1911. ;Seria1 N 0. 608,582.

To all whom it'may concern: Be it known that L cHA-RLEs BEAVIS, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Pineville, in the county ofBell and State of Kentucky, have invented new and useful Improvements in Key-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to key holders, and has for an object to providea novel form of device of this character including asupporting casing, a key holding chain, andaplurality of fastening devices engaging the chain and holding the same in loop form-on the supporting casing so that the keys may be separated from each other to expose the individual key which is frequently used.

Another object of the invention is to provide attaching devices, each of which being capable of a different use and being adapted to be conveniently exposed from the supporting casing for use.

In the drawings, forming a portion of this specification and inwhich like numerals of reference indicate similar parts in the several views :Figure l is a perspective view of the key holder, one of the supporting devices being withdrawn from the casing. Fig. 2 is a section on line 22 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a view illustrating the device in use as a glove buttoner. Fig. 4c is a perspective view of the combination tool. Fig. 5 is a section. on line 55 of Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is a longitudinal section through a port-ion of the casing showing the locking element thereon engaged with one of the attaching devices to hold the same operatively associated with the casing. Fig. 7 is a side view of the holder showing a slightly modified form thereof.

My improved key holder preferably comprises a supporting casing 1 open at both ends and formed from a single length of sheet metal folded on itself to provide the separate compartments 2 and 3. At one end, one of the edge walls of the receptacle is formed to provide a tooth or looking element 4 for a purpose to be hereinafter described.

An attaching device 5 consisting of a single piece of spring wire is slidably mounted in the compartment 2 of the supporting casing. The device 5 is formed with an arm 6 and a similar arm 7 the latter being formed to provide an offset portion 8 and the connecting portions 9 and 10, which latter ex- .tends directly into the arm 6. The .arm 7 I s extended beyond the end of the arm 6 and .lts formed to provide. a hook ll which may be used as a shoe or glove buttoner or the like. Asecond attaching device 12 is provided. The device 12 is preferably in form of a pair of. tweezers, being constructed from a single length of suitablespringy sheet material bent upon itself to form the companion spring jaws 13 and-14. The end 15 of the attaching device 12 has secured thereto oneterminal of a chain or other suitable well known equivalent flexible connection 16, the opposite terminal of the chain being engaged with the hook 11. portion of the chain is also engaged with the hook 11 and in view thereof, the. chain is formed at one end of the'supporting casing with an auxiliary loop 17 which is designed for the reception of a single key. The chain is passed through the looped portion 9 of the attaching device 5, as shown, so that the said portion forms a stop to engage the keys on the main loop 18 of the chain when the attaching device 12 iswithdrawn. from the.

casing, as shown inzFig. 1 of the drawings.

The portion 8 of the attaching device 5 forms a stop to enga e the casing at one end so as to limit the sliding movement of the attaching member in one direction. The loop 9 of the attaching member is relatively large and of a suflicient size to permit the entrance thereinto of the end of the finger so that the attaching device can be convenient-1y manually manipulated. When the attaching device is moved in the supporting casing so as to expose the hook end 11, as shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings, it may be used in the most efiicient manner as a glove buttoner. As stated, the attaching device 5 is formed of springy material, and in View thereof, the arms 6 and 7 normally tend to separate from each other. The locking element or tooth 4 in one-of the edge walls of the supporting casing extends downwardly into the compartment 2 of the casing and in a position to engage in the notch 19 in the arm 6 of the attaching device 5. When the locking element is engaged with the notch the tongue 20 of the hook is concealed between the walls of the compartment 2 and in view thereof, the auxiliary loop 17 of the chain will be retained and held against any possible accidental separation from the hook. When the attaching device 12 is An intermediate moved to the withdrawn position shown in Fig. 1, it can be used as an ordinary pair of tweezers.

In view of the construction of the supporting casing it is designed tor the reception of the combined tool 21. This tool is formed from a single piece of sheet material folded on itself to provide the shank and head portions 22 and 23 respectively, which are spaced from each other for a purpose to be hereinafter described. The shank 22 may be used as a screw-driver and in view thereof, the end of the shank is suitably beveled, as at 24. This device may be used as a pipe cleaner for cleaning the bowl of the pipe or it may be used as a box lid opener by inserting the shank between the lid of the boX and the vertical walls thereof. In View of the fact that I have desired to put the tool to such use the shank 22 is formed at one end with a notch 25 which is adapted to straddle the shank of the nail to facilitate prying the lid to an open position. This de vice may be put to other numerous uses such as folding or cutting pages or cutting the leaves of a magazine, or it may be used as a watch opening.

The construction of the attaching device 12 and the combined tool 21 permits these separate tools to be conveniently associated with the casing and held therewith in a very compact manner so that the whole device may be conveniently carried in the pocket. When associating the tool 21 and the attaching device 12 in the casing, T preterably insert the shank 22 of the tool 21 in the compartment 3 and arrange the same therein so that the tongue 23 yieldingly em braces one of the sides of the casing exteriorly. The opposite jaws l3 and 14 of the tweezers are inserted in the compartments 2 and 3 respectively, and straddle one end of the attaching device 5. When the attaching member 5 is moved to a position in the casing so that the hook 11 is exposed from one end of the casing, that chain which is engaged with the hook may be disengaged so as to permit threading of the key onto the main loop 18.

In the form of my invention shown in F 7, the attaching member 12 is provided with relatively movable arms 26 and 27, each of which being provided at one end with a hook port-ion 28. These portions are equivalent to the hook 11 in the preferred form of my invention and the chain may be engaged therewith so as to present the loop for the individual key.

I claim.

A key holder comprising a casing, a member slidably mounted in the casing and provided with a hook portion, the tongue of which being concealed between the walls of the casing in one position of the member, a second member detachably engaged with the casing, and a flexible element engaged with the said first and second named members and arranged thereon to present a plurality 0t noncommunicating loops.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES BEAVIS.

Witnesses "WM. BURoHrmLn, JOHN M. GREENE.

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